Arts groups focus on outlasting the financial fallout from the pandemic

By Alan Small 

Helping arts groups survive the COVID-19 pandemic has become the top priority for the Winnipeg Arts Council.

“We’re just in a process of preparing our 2021 corporate plan and request to the city and we have one main goal, and that is sustaining the arts in Winnipeg for 2021,” says Carol Phillips, who has been the Winnipeg Arts Council’s executive director since 2006. “That’s the only thing that matters at this point. We are there to support the arts and sustain them at this time of crisis and help them get to the other side.

“They have to have a chance to get back on their feet, and that’s what we want to help them do. The arts need every penny.”

Source: Winnipeg Free Press